Cherry Potts, Writer

Category: Fantasy

  • Air: Sylphs, Spirits and Swan Maidens

    My latest publication! buy it here: I couldn’t make the launch, which although on line was at 2am in the morning, so I recorded a reading of the first page or so. Here it is. my creature of the air, is nothing like the cover image. I had something more like this in mind, but…

  • Old Women in Books: on publishing your mother

    Today is my mum’s birthday. Ghillian Potts is 84. Like me, she has written all her literate life, and still has a notebook full of poems written between the ages of about 7 and 12, (of variable quality!) To celebrate, my publishing company, Arachne Press, is publishing two of her books today. I crowd funded…

  • out and about with Carmen

    I’ve not been on here much recently, there’s been too much happening. The opera – of course the opera! Each year I’ve done more and written about it less. Barely managing a faint tweet now and then this year. Carmen, under the direction of Chris Rolls had us on stage almost all the time  even…

  • Edge Lit 5

    Edge Lit 5

    I will be on a panel at Edge Lit 5, The Midlands’ premier speculative fiction event on Saturday July 16th. The panel is at 12 Noon and is entitled: High Fantasy, High Art: Is Fantasy Growing More Literary? Last I heard, I will be joined by Peter Newman, Jen Williams  and Edward Cox. Venue: QUAD, Market Place, Derby,…

  • Rebellion: Writing Fantasy

    Rebellion: Writing Fantasy

    Arachne Press  Rebellion: Writing Fantasy, author talk and workshop Author Cherry Potts reads from her new novel The Dowry Blade, and discusses ways of writing fantasy with an opportunity for a short writing exercise for the audience. World building, weird logic and rule breaking at Brompton Library 210 Old Brompton Road London SW5 0BS Thursday…

  • Launching the Dowry Blade – pictures

    Launching the Dowry Blade – pictures

    Launching The Dowry Blade at Lewisham Library last week. you next opportunity to catch up with me reading from the epic fantasy TONIGHT,  7pm Beckenham Bookshop, high street Beckenham, Kent opposite the church. Get your skates on!

  • The Dowry Blade, live and in the flesh

    There is nothing to beat a pile of new books, except a pile of new books that you wrote yourself. And this is a big pile, of big books! The Dowry Blade is big! It weighs 620 grams. I hadn’t really thought through the amount of space a 400 page book printed in Royal format…

  • Callout for pre publication reviewers

    So, experimenting with new stuff, my forthcoming book, The Dowry Blade (February 2016) is on NetGalley, a review site for librarians, bookshop owners, book bloggers and professional reviewers. If that is YOU, you can download a review PDF here. It is UNPROOFED, ok, so no comments about typos!

  • Once more into print… Clockwise

    Now, anyone who had anything to do with Solstice Shorts last year will know how much I like a good time theme. So I was delighted to find SolarWyrm‘s Latchkey Tales and their current project, Clockwise, a series of journals focussed around different times of day: this time Midnight Blues. So I sent them a…

  • More From Cut a Long Story

    More stories up on Cut a Long Story… Starkridge: Don’t Mess with Mountains… Glory, or Hope: two goddesses meet on a beach… Prairie Rain: a flash fiction set on a porch near the town of Normal, Illinois Déjà Vû: A radical retelling – Sleeping Beauty and Snow White seen through the prism of The Stepford…